Next day Prince Vasíli had arrived and settled in the count’s house.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

I out by six o’clock by appointment to Hales’s, where we fell to my picture presently very hard, and it comes on a very fine picture, and very merry, pleasant discourse we had all the morning while he was painting.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Books of Travels having been mentioned, Johnson praised Pennant very highly, as he did at Dunvegan, in the Isle of Sky.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

Fanatically, childishly devoted to “the cause” or rather in reality to Pyotr Verhovensky, he acted on the instructions given to him when at the meeting of the quintet they had agreed and had distributed the various duties for the next day.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[1035] he is required to strip himself of all his habitual ornaments, even those to which he is the most attached, and from which he separates himself the least willingly because of the protecting virtues he attributes to them.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

In the moorland solitudes, even by day, there sometimes broods a deeper silence, which is yet more potent and full of meaning for the peasant, as under its spell he beholds the peaceful vision, happy and sunlit, of sea and land, of gentle mountains falling away in land-waves into well-tilled plains and fertile valleys; and he comes to feel instinctively the old Druidic Fires relit within his heart, and perhaps unconsciously he worships there in Nature’s Temple.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

Erskine was on the other side; and he then supported it by saying, that though the gentleman had originally harpooned the lady, and had once had her fast, and only by reason of the great stress of her plunging viciousness, had at last abandoned her; yet abandon her he did, so that she became a loose-fish; and therefore when a subsequent gentleman re-harpooned her, the lady then became that subsequent gentleman’s property, along with whatever harpoon might have been found sticking in her.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

It was a splendid position for guns, though a shell pitched in the line of the work would of necessity have fallen into it, unless passing very high, as it was cut out of the hillside.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

4 (6) His quarrel with the Anatomists, which was in essence the same as that with the Atomists, and which arose from his clear realisation that that primary and indispensable desideratum, a view of the whole, could never be obtained by a mere summation of partial views; hence, also, his sense of the dangers which would beset the medical art if it were allowed to fall into the hands of a mere crowd of competing specialists without any organising head to guide them.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

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— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It is purely vegetable, has a strong tonic effect that builds up and helps the animal to regain strength, and is the quickest and most thorough worm destroyer on the market.
— from Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry by Pratt Food Company

“I can’t find the place,” said Padger, very hot and flurried, and whipping over the pages of a book with his moist thumb.
— from The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's: A School Story by Talbot Baines Reed

A pair of these gentry, sent by Pope Paul V., had appeared in Paris in the year of the assassination of Henri IV., and drew the devout to the little chapel they built here in the fields.
— from The Stones of Paris in History and Letters, Volume 2 (of 2) by Benjamin Ellis Martin

His mouth was pinching very hard and his eyes blinking to keep back the tears when Mrs. Raften came into the room.
— from Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned by Ernest Thompson Seton

She is so passionately vital herself, and one dreads to fail her in spirits or buoyancy.
— from The Case of Richard Meynell by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

Hearing those words of Rāma of measureless prowess, vho had asked the question, the highly energetic Viçwāmitra answered, saying,—"Here, O mighty-armed Rāma, Vishnu of mighty asceticism worshipped of all the deities, for years upon years, and hundreds of Yugas , dwelt for carrying on his austerities and Yoga .
— from The Rāmāyana, Volume One. Bālakāndam and Ayodhyākāndam by Valmiki

11:30 A. M. There was nothing especially interesting about these towns through which we had passed; Hesperia was merely a handful of people; Victorville had a few more and seemed quite prosperous.
— from The Cruise of a Schooner by Albert W. (Albert Wadsworth) Harris

While this matter was in progress among the villagers, Counsellor Pippin vexed himself and his man Hob not a little with inquiries as to the manner in which he should contrive to make some professional business grow out of it.
— from Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia by William Gilmore Simms

Yet no work seems to have more of the flavor of play in it than that of collecting drift-wood on some convenient beach, or than this boat-service of ours, Annie, when we go wandering from island to island in the harbor, and glide over sea-weedgroves and the habitations of crabs,—or to the flowery and ruined bastions of Rose Island,—or to those caves at Coaster's Harbor where we played Victor Hugo, and were eaten up in fancy by a cuttle-fish.
— from Oldport Days by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

She is nineteen, very pretty, very happy, and full of boyish high spirits and conversation .)
— from Second Plays by A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne